[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1921 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1921

 To provide that primary care services provided by the National Health 
          Service Corps may include palliative care services.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 20, 2019

  Ms. Rosen (for herself and Ms. Murkowski) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that primary care services provided by the National Health 
          Service Corps may include palliative care services.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Provider Training in Palliative Care 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PALLIATIVE CARE.

    Section 331(a)(3)(D) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
254d(a)) is amended by inserting ``palliative care,'' after 
``gynecology,''.
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